Obviously, he walked into Jerry's office and just started babbling until jerry broke down and said. OK O k, I'll hire you.
Enjoy your final job in the NFL Mike.
Teams are too afraid to do that, based on history bias. X player has a history in the NFL, so you keep the player with the most recent history healthy. The thing is, you may not be getting that same player year after year.
They didn't play Biadasz, Tyron Smith or Zach Martin in preseason, but they all got hurt early in the regular season. I just don't think playing them for 2 series in a couple of preseason games is really that much of a risk.